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WORD OF ADMONITION:
As the saying goes, “talk is cheap,” and unfortunately in our day much of what passes itself off as Biblical scholarship in today’s local institutional church is nothing more than theological buffoonery which is way too often imbibed by mindless professing Christians who take neither the time nor the effort to carefully study matters for themselves.
THIS WEEK’S CHURCH
CATCHPHRASE
“Christ’s Under-shepherds”
1) A deceitful catchphrase meant to artificially inflate a leaders so-called “position of church rule”; 2) NEVER mentioned once by Jesus;
3) An unbiblical term that the unbiblical local institutional church has foisted upon God’s people.
“We are Christ’s under-shepherds sent by Him to rule over the flock.”
If we can be “out of God’s will,” then our will would be stronger than His.
THIS WEEK'S BIBLE VERSE
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he
hath made crooked?
Ecclesiastes 7:13
See the truth come to life!
THIS WEEK'S
"The Pastoral Office"
“Jesus expects you to obey them that have the rule over you!”
Under the law we become hypocrites. The word comes from the Greek theatre. A hypocrite is not an imperfect person. A hypocrite is an actor, a pretender.
What made the Pharisees hypocrites was not their faults: It was their pretense that they were righteous. It was teaching one thing and doing another. But that is what law will always produce: people who are always hiding their real selves, always acting, always pretending, and never being real.
Many professing believers today inside local institutional churches have been broken by the crushing burden of trying to be good enough to earn God’s acceptance, who have been mangled by the competition, the judging, and the demands to conform to some group’s standards.
“We’ll accept you if you look like, walk like, talk like, and act like us.” And the implication is always, “And God will, too.”
So what are we to do?
To such, the Scriptures are clear:
“Christ has set us free.” “Come out from among them and be separate says the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you, And will be to you a Father, And you shall be to me sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
Was it Gods intention that sin should invade the universe or was it due to an oversight on His part?